tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15663150.post2933342268535081487..comments2024-03-29T09:45:24.833-04:00Comments on Miss Cellania: Polar Bear EncounterMiss Cellaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16056319889765739429noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15663150.post-88886293179772139292019-06-20T05:52:43.417-04:002019-06-20T05:52:43.417-04:00I had never considered a polar bear overturning th...I had never considered a polar bear overturning the cage. Oh, well, polar bear food I guess. I remember a documentary on this soon after the first polar bear cage was made and used. A true cage - bars only, no plexiglass. The researcher (eh, this isn't really research) went to great lengths to estimate how far in a polar bear could reach. Carcasses, bones, zoo animals. Then he added a nice safety margin. What he didn't anticipate was two bears trying for him from opposite sides of the cage. He met this the first time he used the cage, or one of the first. He ended up in the middle of the cage, sideways, while the two bears reached in and tried to snag him with a claw, to drag him to the side of the cage for lunch. He had only a couple of inches on each side. Goodness. He had a much larger cage made before he tried this again. . .Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06200023765927292092noreply@blogger.com